It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
BUFFALO BILLI began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years’ service as a Pony Express rider.
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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